Amy Greene

Amy Greene was born in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains near Knoxville, Tennessee. As a child, her father, a factory worker, and her mother, who worked tobacco, told her the folklore and legends of the place where she grew up. She began writing stories about the people of Appalachia from a very young age.

In high school English class she discovered writers who provided further inspiration: Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and the Brontë sisters. At age fifteen, Greene met the man who would become her husband; they married right after her high school graduation and had their first child two years later.

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